Combination of wood fibers and spider silk could rival plastic
The unique material outperforms most of today's synthetic and natural materials by providing high strength and stiffness, combined with increased ...
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Blink and you’ll miss it
Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new wayCredit: © 2019 Kato et al. Many natural and ...
Lithuanian scientists contributed to creating the record-breaking solar cell
Tandem perovskite-CIGS solar cells, produced as a result of the collaboration between Lithuanian and German researchers, have reached an efficiency ...
Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat
Credit: Renee Ripley, Ohio State University An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in ...
MIT engineers develop ‘blackest black’ material to date
Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materialsCredit: R. Capanna, A. Berlato, ...
Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way
Credit: Jennifer McCann and Amritanand Sebastian, Penn State While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel ...
Scientists create a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same time
The material developed at University of Bath allows for incredibly sensitive detection of the direction molecules twistCredit: Ventsislav Valev and ...
Physicists from IKBFU create metallic alloy for magnetic refrigerator
Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Physicists of the Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal ...
Biologists and mathematicians team up to explore tissue folding
An algorithm developed to study the structure of galaxies helps explain a key feature of embryonic development As embryos develop, ...
Russian-Chinese scientific cooperation: A new generation of sensors for the ‘smart’ city
Russian and Chinese scientists to create prototype sensors for electronics of the latest generation.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University ...
Time heals all wounds, but this adhesive can help
Bioinspired wound dressing contracts in response to body heat to speed healing Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures - ...
Army project may advance quantum materials, efficient communication networks
Credit: Princeton University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 24, 2019) -- A U.S. Army project exploring novel applications of superconducting ...
Developing technologies that run on light
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral ...
Skoltech scientists developed a novel method to fine-tune the properties of carbon nanotubes
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials (CPQM) have developed a novel method to fine-tune the optoelectrical ...
Does one size does fit all? A new model for organic semiconductors
A multicenter team including researchers from Osaka University reports new observations for organic single crystals that derive from their flexibility, ...
Valleytronics core theory for future high-efficiency semiconductor technology
DGIST discovered the core theory of valleytronics that will lead high-efficiency next generation semiconductor technologyCredit: DGIST DGIST research team discovered ...
Ultrathin transistors for faster computer chips
An important breakthrough in transistor technology has been achieved at TU Wien: With the help of novel insulators, high-quality transistors ...
New technique could help engineer polluted water filter, human tissues
Rutgers-led team's protein patterns look like flowers, trees, snowflakesCredit: Nancy Hernandez, William Hansen and Slava Manichev Scientists can turn proteins ...
KIST-Stanford team develops new material for wearable devices able to restore conductivity
KIST-Stanford University team develops new material for wearable devices that can self-heal and recover its original electrical conductivity even after ...
Finding alternatives to diamonds for drilling
Using computational methods, scientists have plotted a highly accurate map to guide the synthesis of new, cheaper materials tough enough ...
